Green Clouds

Sigurður Örlygsson studied at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts 1967–71, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen  1971–72 and at the Art Students League í New York 1974–75. Sigurður’s works are spontaneous, often based on a simple, objective leitmotiv. Græn ský/Green Clouds (1973) is in the spirit of American geometric abstract art, and it is safe to say that Sigurður is the principal Icelandic representative of the monumental US geometric-abstract school identified with Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth Noland: an art of powerful monochrome tones and large planes.